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militaryhistorynow.com
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| | | | | "The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken." FOR OVER two millennia, the city of Rome has stood as one of the greatest symbols of power, culture, and civilization in human history.... | |
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www.byzantineambassador.com
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| | | | | My book draft contains large passages on the statuary of Constantinople. As I scribbled them up I realised that few - unless they specialise in ancient Greek art - know any of the names of the great sculptors and artists. At best, they have heard a few famous names such as the Aphrodite of Cnidus or the Apollo Belvedere, perhaps Lysippus' name has even crossed their lips at a prestigious museum, but few can recite these artistic titans in the same way as the canon of western painters. This is a | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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www.dcscience.net
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| | | Jump to the homeopathy debate Jump to follow-up: Brian Kaplan Obama wins! Bush and Blair have gone. Could this mark the beginning of the end of the fashion for believing things that aren't tr... | ||
